Quote

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
Waterbury
Connecticut
True
Mates
Persons
Tear
Soul
Walls
Person
Awake
Ever
Meet
Important
Tears
Wall
Smack
Probably
Mate

More quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

Image
every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Your fear is just as boring as mine is. Everyone's got the same one. It is not precious. It is not special. It is not singular to you. It's just the one we all got wired with when we came in. Focus on your unique qualities that deserve to be celebrated and put fear back in its place. Don't listen to it. Onward.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
he was still my romantic hero and I was still his living dream
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
The whole sphere of air that surrounds us, Alma, is alive with invisible attractions — electric, magnetic, fiery and thoughtful. There is a universal sympathy all around us… When we cease all argument and debate — both internal and external — our true questions can be heard and answered…That is the gathering of magic.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
God is an experience of supreme love.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Your fear is the most boring thing about you.
Elizabeth Gilbert